Posted on 12/28/2004 10:01:32 AM PST by SmithL
NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.
Sontag died Tuesday morning, officials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said. She had been treated for breast cancer in the 1970s.
Sontag called herself a "besotted aesthete," an "obsessed moralist" and a "zealot of seriousness."
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Hmmmmm
Why is so much importance placed on the lives of these people who mean nothing to 99.9% of the worlds population. Joe hardhat driving a rivet into an I-beam on a skyscraper has added 1000 times more to society than Sontags worthless babble (in my humble opinion).
FYI..on a lighter note..I caught the last 5 minutes of Crossfire a little while ago..their last segment was about "Is the US cheap about giving aid to the tsunami hit region?" Saying, of course, yes we're cheap....was Bianca Jagger...teh Crossfire crowd is always wildly liberal...but she got a one hand clapping recetion..tepid is waaay to kind..
Actually it usually starts with something somewhat nice before "good riddance to bad rubbish"
rotflmao!!!!
Thank you! (:
At least one liberal kept her promise to leave if W was re-elected.
The idea that the humanities aren't important is the sort of thing that disuades conservatives from getting a decent voice in academia. As for your popularity contest criteria, more people know about Paris Hilton then William F Buckley.
I agree. I also don't see the courage in pulling a knife on unsuspecting and unarmed travelers (including women and children), lulling them into temporary compliance with lies about their future safety, and then crashing the plane. Absolutely absurd. Jere Longman's book "Among the Heroes" goes into some detail about the contents of the Flight 93 cockpit reporter tapes and how they demonstrate that those terrorists locked themselves into the cockpit and hid from the passengers. Courage my ass.
You're right. LOL! After you've been here for awhile you can pretty much predict what every thread is going to be and who is going to be there! I'm sure there are plenty who know my M.O. and would say the same!!!
I don't know enough about New York feminists to say many are Jewish women BUT BUT BUT I can say with sure accuracy that many are UGLY inside and out.
geez...a hair sensitive aren't we dear?
It was a legitimate question. I'm sorry I bothered you with it.
I shan't ever again.
Many of the most prominant 50s and 60s fembots were Jewish women.
That is simply a fact.
I only asked why.
It was legitimate in my view but alas..one must always be so careful with all of our little sacred cows around this now rather PC little forum.
Geez.
I have no clue. I think figuring out why a lot of black folks are still democrats is easier.
I always noticed even down south that Jewish moms were bossier in the home.
Is that a Jewish cultural thing or an eastern European thing?
I don't recall Sephardic or Oriental Jews I've known doing that so much.
Blame it on Lilith...lol
I should ask my mom since she works with a very substantial Jewish community in Great Neck. My mom can nag with the best and she gets along too well with the old Jewish grannies in the assisted living place where she works.
I'm not your dear.
It was a legitimate question. I'm sorry I bothered you with it.
Bullcrap. Why the focus on *Jewish* feminist women? I'm getting sick and tired of the less and less subtle Jew-bashing here on FR.
I shan't ever again.
Good, especially since I didn't ask for it.
Oh please dearest...what a reach. It was a legit question. Why is the leadership of the feminist movement as exemplified by Sontag disproportionately made up of Jewish women? I bet you think no one should ask such things about minorities as well right? Yet, you probably consider yourself very non-politically correct in spite of being so knee jerk.
What kind of conservatism do you espouse whereby no one can ask a question about something so obvious? It's not like calling fat people fat at the checkout line.
Forget I said anything.
Questions about Jewish culture and feminism are verboten....could be misinterpreted ya know.
The left has no corner on political correctness.
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